Friday, November 16, 2012

ArtStudio for iPhone – New Interface, New Engine, Lots of New Features

Lodz, Poland – Lucky Clan has announced the release and immediate availability of ArtStudio 5.0, an update to their versatile drawing/painting/photo editing app. ArtStudio is the most comprehensive, sketching, painting and photo editing tool in the App Store. Completely re-designed from the ground up the new ArtStudio features a beautiful new user interface and a powerful new graphics engine to make creating works of art faster, easier, and more fun! Using advanced drawing algorithms this is the fastest and most precise version of ArtStudio to date.

What’s New:
* New UX
* Incredible performance boost
* Bigger max canvas sizes: 3264×2448(iPhone 5), 25921936 (iPhone 4s, iPhone 4), 20481536 (iPhone 3gs)
* Use as many layers as memory allows
* 450 High Quality Brushes (150 free, 300 paid) in 27 groups
* Improved text tool: text layers, external TTF fonts (uploaded in iTunes)
* Added Heal tool – perfect for removing pimples and wrinkles from faces and other unwanted objects from any photo
* Added Distort feature: skew, perspective, free transform – available in Edit->Distort…
* Added guidelines and grid
* 21 layer blending modes: normal, dissolve, darken, multiply, burn, subtract, lighten, screen, dodge, add, overlay, soft light, hard light, difference, grain extract, grain merge, divide, hue, saturation, color, value
* Many more brush settings: blur, flip, size, opacity, spacing, fadeout, squeeze, wetness, angle, speed-size, speed-opacity, random flip, scatter, jitter-spacing, jitter-angle, jitter-size, jitter-squeeze, jitter-opacity, jitter-hue, jitter-saturation, jitter-lightness
* Curves adjustment
* 40 filters including incredible Elastify filter
* Auto contrast/colors/white balance
* Air Print
* And many more

Features:
* iPhone 5 fully supported
* Flexible canvas size, max: 3264×2448(iPhone 5), 25921936 (iPhone 4s, iPhone 4), 20481536 (iPhone 3gs)
* 16 tools: select, pencil, wet paintbrush, dry paintbrush, spray, dots, eraser, smudge, bucket fill, gradient, text, clone, heal, blur/sharpen, dodge/burn, eyedropper
* 450 HIGH QUALITY BRUSHES (150 free, 300 paid) divided into 30 groups
* Custom brushes, max size: 500x500px
* Select tool: rect/ellipse/lasso/magic wand/by color, add/sub/intersect, contract/expand/round corners/border/…
* Text tool: over 150 system fonts, support of external TTF fonts (just upload .ttf file in iTunes using File Sharing), special text layer to easy edit text
* Favorites list to quickly access user’s favorite brush settings
* Fully customizable stroke settings: blur, flip, size, opacity, spacing, fadeout, squeeze, angle, speed-size, speed-opacity, random flip, scatter, jitter-spacing, jitter-angle, jitter-size, jitter-squeeze, jitter-opacity, jitter-hue, jitter-saturation, jitter-lightness
* Simulated brush pressure, support for bluetooth stylus pressure sensitivity
* Symmetric drawing
* Guidelines, grid
* Shapes: lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons (open, closed)
* Layer options: add, duplicate, merge down/visible, delete, lock alpha, show/hide, link, name, reorder, opacity, blending modes
* Layer masks
* Layer/selection transformations: move/scale/rotate with multi-touch, flip, rotate left/right, fill/erase
* Distort (skew, perspective etc)
* 21 layer blending modes: normal, multiply, add, difference, screen, overlay, hue, saturation, color, value,…
* Import from ‘Photos’, camera, iTunes, clipboard
* Export as JPG/PNG/PSD to ‘Photos’, email, clipboard, iTunes
* Multi-touch navigation with unlimited zoom
* Undo/redo with almost infinite number of steps
* Image resize (none, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos interpolations) , change canvas size, crop
* 40 filters: gaussian/motion/radial blur, sharpen, unsharp mask, add noise, render clouds, edge detect, border/vignette and more
* Elastify filter used to make incredible distortions
* Adjustments: brightness/contrast/exposure, hue/saturation/lightness, color balance, temperature, shadows/highlights, Curves, auto contrast/colors/white balance and more

Language Support:
* US English

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS/4/4S/5, iPod touch (3rd/4th/5th generation), and iPad
* iOS 4.3 or later
* 20.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
ArtStudio for iPhone 5.0 is $2.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photo & Video category.

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ArtStudio for iPhone 5.0
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Located in Lodz, Poland, the Lucky Clan team is an independent software company founded by Sylwester Los in March of 2010. With a focus on the iOS platform, Lucky’s mission is to provide their customers with the highest quality, reliability and compatibility with every device produced by Apple. Their flagship app, ArtStudio, has become one of the most popular tools for drawing, painting, and photo editing for iPhone and iPad. Copyright (C) 2012 Lucky Clan. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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